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The Dirty Life
“In her beguiling memoir, Kimball describes the complex truth aboutthe simple life in prose that is observant and lyrical, yet tempered by a farmer’s lack of sentimentality.” —
Elle
“[An] appealing memoir . . . Kimball has a lusty appetite and hermemoir is as much a celebration of food as it is of farming.”—Dominique Browning,
The New York Times Book Review
“Kimball’s memoir is heightened by the serious question at itsheart—What modes of farming besides industrial agriculture areavailable to us, and how might we achieve them?—and by her inti-mate yet spacious prose, spiked with color and wonderful descrip-tions of food. . . . You feel, in reading the book, as if she’s thrown openthe big red doors on her barn and invited you in.” —NewYorker.com“[Kimball has] given us a taste of a life that makes us appreciate thehard-won food we all eat and the sense of purpose and connection somany of us crave.” —
The Christian Science Monitor
“Kimball is a graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail. . . .How lucky we are to be able to step into that world with no sweat. Iwished for a hundred pages more.” —
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“In this ‘know your farmer’ era, [Kimball] doesn’t sugarcoat or skirtaround the challenges and hardships that organic farmers face. That’spart of what makes her memoir so memorable.”—Associated Press
Te Dirty Lie
A Memoir o Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball
“Tis book is the story o the two love afairs that interrupted the trajec-tory o my lie: one with arming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating armer.”
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City,Kristin Kimball was living lie as an adventure. But she was begin-ning to eel a sense o longing or a amily and or home. When sheinterviewed a dynamic young armer, her world changed. Kristinknew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs andcattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, i not yet inlove, she shed her city sel and moved to ve hundred acres nearLake Champlain to start a new arm with him.
Te Dirty Lie
is thecaptivating chronicle o their rst year on Essex Farm, rom thecold North Country winter through the ollowing harvest season—complete with their wedding in the lot o the barn.Kimball and her husband had a plan: to grow everything neededto eed a community. It was an ambitious idea, a bit romantic, andit worked. Every Friday evening, all year round, a hundred peopletravel to Essex Farm to pick up their weekly share o the “wholediet”—bee, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, ours,dried beans, herbs, ruits, and orty diferent vegetables—producedby the arm. Te work is done by drat horses instead o tractors,and the ertility comes rom compost. Kimball’s vivid descriptionso landscape, ood, cooking—and marriage—are irresistible.
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The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
"The Dirty Life is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."
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